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Aleister Crowley
Geburtstag: 12. Oktober 1875
Todesdatum: 1. Dezember 1947
Andere Namen: Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
Aleister Crowley [ˈælɪstə ˈkɹoʊli] war ein britischer Okkultist, Schriftsteller und Bergsteiger.
Crowley bezeichnete sich als den Antichrist und das Große Tier 666 und führte ein ausschweifendes Leben. Von 1898 bis 1900 war er Mitglied im Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, im Anschluss gründete er eigene Gesellschaften, die sich inhaltlich und formell an diesem Orden orientierten. 1904 verfasste er das Buch Liber AL vel Legis , das zur Leitschrift seiner neureligiösen Bewegung Thelema wurde. Crowleys Beschäftigung mit Sexualmagie brachte ihn in Kontakt mit dem Ordo Templi Orientis . Nach einem Aufenthalt in New York gründete er 1920 in Cefalù auf Sizilien die kurzlebige Abtei Thelema. 1925 übernahm er de facto die Leitung des O.T.O. 1935 schuf er das Thoth-Tarot.
Crowley beeinflusste die Geschichte diverser Geheimbünde und neureligiöser Orden und nahm mittelbar Einfluss auf den Wicca-Kult. Auch aufgrund seiner sexuell aufgeladenen Schriften erlangte Crowley in den 1970er Jahren eine große postume Popularität. Wikipedia
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„I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.“
— Aleister Crowley, buch Moonchild
Quelle: Moonchild
„Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.“
Quelle: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
„Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.“
— Aleister Crowley, buch The Book of the Law
I:40 This famous statement derives from several historic precedents, including that of François Rabelais in describing the rule of his Abbey of Thélème in Gargantua and Pantagruel: Fait ce que vouldras (Do what thou wilt), which was later used by the Hellfire Club established by Sir Francis Dashwood. It is also similar to the Wiccan proverb: An ye harm none, do what thou wilt; but the oldest known statement of a similar assertion is that of St. Augustine of Hippo: Love, and do what thou wilt.
Quelle: The Book of the Law (1904)
— Aleister Crowley, buch The Book of Lies
45 : Chinese Music
Quelle: The Book of Lies (1913)
„Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontext: Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
— Aleister Crowley, buch Diary of a Drug Fiend
Quelle: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.“
— Aleister Crowley, buch Diary of a Drug Fiend
Quelle: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.“
— Aleister Crowley, buch Diary of a Drug Fiend
Quelle: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontext: Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
„No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.“
Quelle: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Kontext: To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The natural laziness of the mind tempts one to eschew authors who demand a continuous effort of intelligence. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.
